U 148
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Type : | II D |
Field Post Number : | M 31 253 |
Shipyard: | German works , Kiel |
Construction contract: | September 25, 1939 |
Build number: | 277 |
Keel laying: | April 10, 1940 |
Launch: | November 16, 1940 |
Commissioning: | December 28, 1940 |
Commanders: |
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Calls: | no ventures |
Sinkings: |
no |
Whereabouts: | self-sunk on May 5, 1945 ( rainbow order ) |
U 148 was a German submarine from type II D , which in World War II by the German navy was used.
history
The order for the boat was awarded to the shipyard Deutsche Werke , Kiel , on September 25, 1939 . The keel was laid on April 10, 1940, the launch on November 16, 1940. The commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Jürgen Radke finally took place on December 28, 1940. After its commissioning on December 28, 1940 to September 30, 1941, the boat was part of the 24th U-Flotilla in Memel as a training boat . From October 1, 1940 to March 1945 a school boat in the 21st U-Flotilla in Pillau , from March 1945 to May 1945 it was used as a training boat for the 31st U-Flotilla in Hamburg . The boat had a tiger emblem on the tower .
U 148 was used exclusively as a school and training boat and did not complete any operations in the front during its service.
Use statistics
No ventures.
Whereabouts
The boat was self- sunk by its crew on May 5, 1945 in Wilhelmshaven in the west chamber of the IV entrance (Raederschleuse) according to the rainbow order that had existed for a long time, but was canceled by Grand Admiral Dönitz on the evening of May 4, 1945 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , page 63
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
Web links
- U 148 on u-bootarchiv.de , a detailed site about German submarines (German)